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AtricleZine - Understanding the Gospel of Matthew and Why it Matters - Part 9
Let's take a look at the possibility of earning extra income with online auctions. You probably know someone who’s done this successfully. And, although it doesn’t generally have huge financial potential, it can be a good way to bring in extra cash for someone who's retired or for a stay at home Mom.An online auction business offers great flexibility. For example, during the day, you might take the children with you while you shop at yard sales and for other bargains. This could even be a fun learning experience for the kids. Then, after bedtime, you can input all of your auction items.A good way to get started is by visiting www.ebay.com, www.yahoo.com and www.amazon.com. Once you’ve done some research and know your way around the sites, you’ll want to start scooping up bargains at garage and yard sales, flea markets, close outs, thrift shops, etc.Look for new, used and handmade items that you can auction off for more than you pay for them. You’ll need to write a description, give an opening price and post a photo. Most sites charge a nominal listing fee of about 50 cents plus a small percentage of around 5% of your final selling price.Checking out refer
Once more, let me say clearly that baptism is not a requirement of salvation. Y
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John Baptizes the People
4 Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
5 Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him,
6 And they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
The Meaning of John’s Baptism
This passage gives us an incredible opportunity to learn about the meaning and mode of baptism. One of the first principles that we can learn from this passage is that baptism is always to be accompanied by repentance (v.2) and confession of sins (v.6). As you remember from our last passage, baptism was a ceremony that marked entrance into a new kingdom. It was an act that symbolized the inauguration of citizenship in a new nation. Originally, baptism was practiced as a rite of passage for Gentiles who desired to become citizens of Israel. John’s baptism was practiced as a rite of passage of Jews who wanted to become citizens of the kingdom of heaven. In both circumstances, the act of baptism symbolized a transformation from unclean to clean, unacceptable to acceptable. Gentiles had to be washed to become Jews, Jews and Gentiles have to be washed to become citizens of heaven.
Does baptism save? The Bible answers with a resounding no. Baptism does not make a person a Christian any more than pledging the U. S. flag makes someone an American. Christians are saved by grace through faith alone. Baptism is an external action that reveals an internal transformation. Baptism reveals that a change of citizenship has taken place, but is not in itself the cause of the change. This is why John’s baptism had to be accompanied by genuine repentance. John did not want to baptize anybody who he suspected had not already experienced an inner transformation. The public confession of sins was one way in which people gave evidence to John that they were experiencing authentic repentance, and that they truly were qualified to receive the ceremony of baptism.
This is why I believe that true Christian baptism is believer’s baptism. Nowhere in Scripture do we read of an infant or small child receiving baptism. Instead, we read of adults coming to John (and later the Apostles), repenting and confessing of their sins, and then being baptized. I believe that infants are incapable of receiving a genuine Christian baptism simply because they are unable to repent or confess sins. The Scriptures are overwhelmingly clear that baptism is an act for Christians who have repented of their sins and placed their trust in Jesus. Infants cannot do these things, and therefore are not qualified for baptism.
Once more, let me say clearly that baptism is not a requirement of salvation. Ye
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Does baptism save? The Bible answers with a resounding no. Baptism does not make a person a Christian any more than pledging the U. S. flag makes someone an American. Christians are saved by grace through faith alone. Baptism is an external action that reveals an internal transformation. Baptism reveals that a change of citizenship has taken place, but is not in itself the cause of the change. This is why John’s baptism had to be accompanied by genuine repentance. John did not want to baptize anybody who he suspected had not already experienced an inner transformation. The public confession of sins was one way in which people gave evidence to John that they were experiencing authentic repentance, and that they truly were qualified to receive the ceremony of baptism.
This is why I believe that true Christian baptism is believer’s baptism. Nowhere in Scripture do we read of an infant or small child receiving baptism. Instead, we read of adults coming to John (and later the Apostles), repenting and confessing of their sins, and then being baptized. I believe that infants are incapable of receiving a genuine Christian baptism simply because they are unable to repent or confess sins. The Scriptures are overwhelmingly clear that baptism is an act for Christians who have repented of their sins and placed their trust in Jesus. Infants cannot do these things, and therefore are not qualified for baptism.
Once more, let me say clearly that baptism is not a requirement of salvation. Y
So quantum physics tells us that the observer causes the observed, or at the very least that the observer interferes with that which is being observed by the very process of observing it. I’ve heard some people crying "heresy!" They do not like the idea that once the observer is not observing the observed, then the observed is not.In my mind that misses a large, obvious point which makes the concept ludicrous. We are all one, god if you will, or at the very least energy, unseparated my anything other than atomic configuration which on a larger scale appears to create separation of bodies of mass. Since we know better, then there’s a couple other points we cannot overlook.Firstly, because we are all one energy field, for lack of a better term, there is no “disappearance” of anything when it is not being observed. Our human notion of “not existing” encapsulates anything not within the small frequency band our six physical senses can pick up. Perhaps the observer causes the observed to become a manifest, physical experience (to the observer), but the lack of observer in no way takes away the existence of that experience/being/energy.Secondly, because all ener
Does baptism save? The Bible answers with a resounding no. Baptism does not make a person a Christian any more than pledging the U. S. flag makes someone an American. Christians are saved by grace through faith alone. Baptism is an external action that reveals an internal transformation. Baptism reveals that a change of citizenship has taken place, but is not in itself the cause of the change. This is why John’s baptism had to be accompanied by genuine repentance. John did not want to baptize anybody who he suspected had not already experienced an inner transformation. The public confession of sins was one way in which people gave evidence to John that they were experiencing authentic repentance, and that they truly were qualified to receive the ceremony of baptism.
This is why I believe that true Christian baptism is believer’s baptism. Nowhere in Scripture do we read of an infant or small child receiving baptism. Instead, we read of adults coming to John (and later the Apostles), repenting and confessing of their sins, and then being baptized. I believe that infants are incapable of receiving a genuine Christian baptism simply because they are unable to repent or confess sins. The Scriptures are overwhelmingly clear that baptism is an act for Christians who have repented of their sins and placed their trust in Jesus. Infants cannot do these things, and therefore are not qualified for baptism.
Once more, let me say clearly that baptism is not a requirement of salvation. Y
It was quoted by the India Government’s Singhvi Commission that “the sun never sets in the Indian diaspora.”An NRI is an Indian Citizen who has migrated to another country in search of better prospects or for any other reasons. Indians from all parts of the country & different ethnic backgrounds have migrated to various parts of the world & hence they are categorized as NRIs. They are scattered in regions such as South East Asia, United States of America, United Kingdom, Myanmar, Soudi Arabia, Pilipines, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, North America, Canada, Fiji etc.It was quoted by the India Government’s singhvi Commission that “the sun never sets in the Indian diaspora”. The term Indian Diaspora typically covers NRIs & PIOs (Person of Indian Orgin), and it is very special for India as these people have carved a niche for themselves in an alienated world & external surroundings.Pravasi Bhartiya Divas is also one major initiative taken by the government to extend a welcome note to all its NRIs in the world. After all this land belongs to them as well. These days steps have been taken by the government to bring these NRI’s back to the roots of our country, to le
This is why I believe that true Christian baptism is believer’s baptism. Nowhere in Scripture do we read of an infant or small child receiving baptism. Instead, we read of adults coming to John (and later the Apostles), repenting and confessing of their sins, and then being baptized. I believe that infants are incapable of receiving a genuine Christian baptism simply because they are unable to repent or confess sins. The Scriptures are overwhelmingly clear that baptism is an act for Christians who have repented of their sins and placed their trust in Jesus. Infants cannot do these things, and therefore are not qualified for baptism.
Once more, let me say clearly that baptism is not a requirement of salvation. Y
So, that in and of itself is just another reason to continue to produce products. What I find is that if I continue to produce products, every time I release a brand new product, I get new customers, and I get repeat customers—I think that that’s the key, here. I get new customers, I get repeat customers, every time I create something. The question is for you… can you create something every single month? If you’re working part time, you probably can’t—maybe creating a new product every three to four months is more realistic. But think about this, if you create a new product every three months for a year, now you have three—four products, at the end of the year. If you were to do that for three years, you’d have twelve products.How many people online have twelve products? Imagine the profits that you could reap if you had twelve products and twelve nice sales ladders. If you’re full time online, I think it’s quite reasonable to assume that you could create one new product every single month.I’ve done it—now granted, I work 45, 50 hours a week. But if you’re working full time online, that’s probably what you should be working, is 45 or 50 hours a week, and you r
Once more, let me say clearly that baptism is not a requirement of salvation. Yet, nevertheless, it is a requirement of obedience to Christ. Jesus Himself never baptized anybody, but His disciples did. Later, the Apostles made it clear what Jesus expected of His followers: “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins…” It is by repentance that we are saved (the inner transformation), and it is through baptism that we give evidence to God, ourselves, and other people that we have been washed and made new. It is the first step of a lifetime of commitment to Christ as Master.
I struggled for many years to understand how a church ought to handle the ordinance of baptism. There have always been two prevailing views: First, that baptism ought to be something that is done as soon as possible for a new believer; second, that candidates for baptism ought to have a trial period of a few weeks or even months to offer evidence that they have truly repented and are qualified for baptism. Admittedly, I have wavered in which view I hold at different points in my ministry. Currently, I favor the former view. I simply cannot refute the abounding Biblical evidence that baptism seems to be something that was done immediately for those professing Christ.
In Acts 16, Paul and Silas witness the miraculous conversion of the Philippian jailer and his family. Notice the immediacy of the baptism: “And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds, and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.” Why was this man and his family baptized so quickly after their conversion – especially in the middle of the night? I believe that it is because Paul and Silas understood baptism to be the first act of obedience for the jailer and his family. To delay in obeying the command to be baptized is to put off a clear command of God. It would be hypocritical to call Jesus Master and yet to delay in obeying His very first command to believers.
In the New Testament, you would be hard pressed to find one example of a believer who was not baptized. There are examples, of course. The thief on the cross obviously was not baptized before his death. I
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